Critical and Historical Essays: Lord Bacon. Sir William Temple. Gladstone on church and stateB. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 |
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... tion , not in small detached portions , but as a whole ; that he refined little , and that his reasonings were those of a capacious rather than a subtle mind . Ben Jonson , a most unexception- 1 His hearers able judge , has described ...
... tion , not in small detached portions , but as a whole ; that he refined little , and that his reasonings were those of a capacious rather than a subtle mind . Ben Jonson , a most unexception- 1 His hearers able judge , has described ...
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... tion of Luther from the communion of the Church of Rome , was now over . The boundary between Protestantism and Popery had been fixed very nearly where it still remains . England , Scotland , the Northern kingdoms were on one side ...
... tion of Luther from the communion of the Church of Rome , was now over . The boundary between Protestantism and Popery had been fixed very nearly where it still remains . England , Scotland , the Northern kingdoms were on one side ...
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... tion from that in which Mr. Montagu tries to place him . Ba- con was here distinctly behind his age . He was one of the last of the tools of power who persisted in a practice the most barbarous and the most absurd that has ever ...
... tion from that in which Mr. Montagu tries to place him . Ba- con was here distinctly behind his age . He was one of the last of the tools of power who persisted in a practice the most barbarous and the most absurd that has ever ...
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... tion , of an enlarged philanthropy , of a sincere love of truth . There , no temptation drew him away from the right course . Thomas Aquinas could pay no fees . Duns Scotus could con- fer no peerages . The Master of the Sentences had no ...
... tion , of an enlarged philanthropy , of a sincere love of truth . There , no temptation drew him away from the right course . Thomas Aquinas could pay no fees . Duns Scotus could con- fer no peerages . The Master of the Sentences had no ...
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... tion . But what analogy is there between payments of this sort and the presents which Bacon received , presents which were not sanctioned by the law , which were not made under the public eye , and of which the amount was regulated only ...
... tion . But what analogy is there between payments of this sort and the presents which Bacon received , presents which were not sanctioned by the law , which were not made under the public eye , and of which the amount was regulated only ...
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absurd admiration admit alliance ancient apostolical apostolical succession appeared Augmentis Bacon battle of Delium believe Bishop body Buckingham Cabinet Chancellor character Charles Christian Church of England Cicero conduct considered Council Court Declaration of Indulgence declared defence doctrines eminent employed English Essays Essex evil favour favourite feel France Francis Bacon Gladstone Gladstone's Grand Pensionary Halifax Holland Homoousians honour House of Commons human importance induction intellect Ireland judge King Lady learning letters Long Parliament Lord Macaulay mankind means ment mind Ministers Montagu Moor Park moral nation nature never Novum Organum object opinion Parliament party persecution person philosophy Plato political Prince principles produced propagate proposition Protestant Queen question reason religion religious respect scarcely seems Shaftesbury society Socinian spirit statesman succession talents temper Temple Temple's thing thought tion treaty truth whole Witt
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Página 23 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.
Página 142 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 142 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Página 145 - ... sojourned, always moving, yet never advancing, reaping no harvest and building no abiding city ; before him a goodly land, a land of promise, a land flowing with milk and honey. While the multitude below saw only the flat sterile desert in which they had so long wandered, bounded on every side by a near horizon, or diversified only by some deceitful mirage, he was gazing from a far higher stand, on a far lovelier country — following with his eye the long course of fertilising rivers, through...
Página 255 - ... remarkable analogy to his mode of thinking, and indeed exercises great influence on his mode of thinking. His rhetoric, though often good of its kind, darkens and perplexes the logic which it should illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence, with a barren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would have saved him from almost all his mistakes. He has one gift most dangerous to a speculator, — a vast command of a kind of language, grave and majestic, but of vague and uncertain import, — of...
Página 223 - A fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would iteer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Página 143 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour.
Página 111 - Finis et scopus quem leges intueri atque ad quem jussiones et sanctiones suas dirigere debent, non alius est quam ut cives feliciter degant. Id fiet si pietate et religione recte instituti, moribus honesti, armis adversus hostes externos tuti, legum auxilio adversus seditiones et privatas injurias muniti, imperio et magistratibus obsequentes, copiis et opibus locupletes et florentes fuerint.
Página 143 - Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Página 243 - ... nor can any modern fiddler enchant fishes, fowls, and serpents by his performance. He tells us that " Thales, Pythagoras, Democritus, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Epicurus made greater progresses in the several empires of science than any of their successors have since been able to reach...